Sentences with phrase «causing high cholesterol»

It's natural to feel anxious when doctors scare you but remember the cholesterol itself has immune and healing functions, it does as much good as bad, so the key is to get to the bottom of any dietary defect that is causing high cholesterol and fix that.

Second, you and I do NOT need to ditch the coconut oil, nor do we have to blame coconut oil for causing high cholesterol or heart disease.

While they once were blamed for causing high cholesterol, READ MORE

since they contain a Saturated fat and from what I understand saturated fats are bad for humans (causing high cholesterol thus strokes, etc)??

For a while, eggs did get a bad wrap as causing high cholesterol, but most nutrition experts now agree that eggs can be a healthy part of your diet.

Saturated fats, on the other hand, have been demonized as causing high cholesterol and heart disease, when in fact the opposite is true.

Ask any parent or grandparent about eating eggs and you will most likely get the reply that you should limit them as they cause high cholesterol.

An example of this kind of medication is mipomersen, an antisense molecule already available for the treatment of inherited conditions that cause high cholesterol levels.

So, if cholesterol - rich foods don't cause high cholesterol, what does?

Thing is, it's not just heredity that can cause high cholesterol.

Eggs became an issue of controversy some time ago, when in the fitness community a myth was spread that eggs can cause high cholesterol, clogged arteries and other health problems.The yolk in a single large egg contains 5 grams of fat, so it was only natural for nutritionists to assume that eggs clogged up people's arteries, especially since they also contain dietary cholesterol.Later it was generally accepted that dietary cholesterol does not raise blood cholesterol levels.

Before we talk about cholesterol lowering foods, let's start by talking about what foods cause high cholesterol and increase your risk for cardiovascular disease.

I know it can seem confusing and overwhelming at first to think about these things, and it seems counterintuitive that high - cholesterol foods don't cause high cholesterol.

Statins forceably lower cholesterol levels without addressing the root of what's causing higher cholesterol.

-LSB-...] Pie, provides the best of both worlds because it tastes great, and is also incredibly does eating paleo cause high cholesterol healthy also.

If «a concerned mom» decides to believe all that Harvard says as absolute authority, then she should also read their reports on how saturated fats do not cause high cholesterol and how cholesterol does not cause heart disease.

Unfortunately, genetic deficiencies in the cell receptors responsible for cholesterol removal are what cause high cholesterol, its all about how efficient your system is in removing it.

Actually, the idea that red meat causes high cholesterol has been debunked.

It's a misconception that consumption of saturated fat causes high cholesterol.

For instance, take the Framingham Heart Study, which is often cited as proof of the lipid hypothesis (the idea that saturated fat causes high cholesterol and heart disease).

Yes I realize dietary cholesterol doesn't necessarily cause high cholesterol levels.

Diet rich in saturated fats can cause high cholesterol levels and should therefore be avoided.

Most saturated fats are long chain triglycerides, which do not have the beneficial property and which can cause high cholesterol.

Fat without carbs can not raise your insulin level, a raising of your insulin level is what causes high cholesterol not saturated fat alone, it simply does not.

The toxins in grains cause so many other health problems, including skyrocketing your blood sugar, that they in fact cause high cholesterol.

The reason government nutrition advice will not endorse this diet, is because to do so would be to admit that the lipid theory of disease, that saturated fats cause high cholesterol which leads to heart disease, is false, and this would destroy several very profitable businesses, including pharmaceutical drugs designed to lower cholesterol levels (statin drugs).

I mentioned earlier that the corticosteroid medications, often given to pets for a variety of health problems, can cause high cholesterol levels (= iatrogenic Cushing's disease).

Here's why we should believe in scientists and why red wine is good for us and now it's not and why diet causes ulcers and now it doesn't and why breakfast is the most important meal of the day but only if you sell Kellogg's cereal or Florida orange juice and why you should avoid eggs because they'll cause high cholesterol and why that is no longer true and how the food pyramid is real science and all of the old food pyramids were bad science and carrots are good for your eyes and since cows live exclusively on a vegetarian diet, so can you.

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Herper homes in on a relatively new class of super-powerful (and super expensive) cholesterol - busting drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors (which were just shown to reduce death from any cause, and particularly heart - related conditions), and how patients with staggeringly high cholesterol who would benefit from the treatments had to wrangle with insurance companies that refused to cover them over their high prices.

It turns out that traditional fats are good for you, and that saturated fats in particular do not cause heart disease and high cholesterol.

I had lost weight, but I still suffered from digestive issues, allergies, high blood pressure and cholesterol so I wanted to get to the root cause of those issues.

Although early studies showed that saturated fat diets with very low levels of PUFAs increase serum cholesterol, whereas other studies showed high serum cholesterol increased the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), the evidence of dietary saturated fats increasing CAD or causing premature death was weak.

Once demonized as unhealthy and the cause of high cholesterol and heart disease, science is now confirming the traditional cultural values of our parents» and grandparents» generations that not only are saturated fats not unhealthy, but that they are in fact healthy.

It found that eating methodologies with meat and cheddar as the essential wellspring of immersed fat caused larger amounts of HDL, or supposed «great» cholesterol contrasted with a low - fat, high - starch abstain from food.

This is important: high cholesterol can be an indicator of other issues in the body that can increase risk of heart disease, but cholesterol itself is not the cause.

In the modern society, some pregnant women avoid eggs because they think that they are high in cholesterol and can cause allergies to the baby.

Obesity and overweight can cause serious health problems, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, asthma, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, several forms of cancer, and osteoarthritis.

An example comes from a patient with familial hypercholesterolemia — a disease that causes high blood levels of «bad» LDL (low - density lipoprotein) cholesterol because a cellular defect prevents the liver from absorbing LDL.

«I was taught that SCAD was rare and the causes entirely unknown, but through our partnership with SCAD survivors and their families, clues are emerging that may change that,» says Sharonne Hayes, M.D., senior author and cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. «We know from previous research that SCAD occurs most often in younger women with no or minimal cardiovascular risk factors, like high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

«Unhealthy patterns of cholesterol could be directly causing the higher levels of amyloid known to contribute to Alzheimer's, in the same way that such patterns promote heart disease,» he said.

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association today released a new clinical practice guideline for the treatment of blood cholesterol in people at high risk for cardiovascular diseases caused by atherosclerosis, or hardening and narrowing of the arteries, that can lead to heart attack, stroke or death.

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death among homeless people, probably because they have a high rate of traditional risk factors such as smoking or undiagnosed or untreated hypertension, diabetes or high cholesterol, combined with the stress and low socio - economic status associated with homelessness.

«What we are learning today is that suPAR in a general way is to kidneys what cholesterol is to the heart, a substance that can cause damage if levels rise too high, or a substance that can likely make many forms of kidney disease worse,» Reiser says.

«Rare errors in PCSK9 were first found to cause high LDL cholesterol and different errors were later associated with low LDL cholesterol and protection from coronary disease.

Liver damage caused by the typical «Western diet» — one high in fat, sugar and cholesterol that's common in developed countries such as the United States — may be difficult to reverse even if diet is generally improved, a new study shows.

Components of post-transplant metabolic syndrome include diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, and abnormal fat and cholesterol blood levels, which can cause heart disease and related adverse events such as heart attack and stroke.

However, the Joslin study, published in the May issue of the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, shows that, without other factors such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol, hyperinsulinemia alone does not cause atherosclerosis.

High cholesterol causes atherosclerosis — a build up of fatty deposits in the arteries which greatly restrict blood flow, and those born with this condition usually die of heart attacks in childhood.

The genetic condition familial hypercholesterolemia causes blood - cholesterol levels three to seven times higher than normal in humans.

«Eggs have gotten an undeserved reputation as one of the leading causes of high cholesterol.